Gallery Slideshow WordPress Plugin
Turn any WordPress gallery into a simple, robust, lightweight and fluid slideshow.
This plugin allows authors to turn a WordPress gallery into a slideshow.
To activate slideshow mode replace the word "gallery" with "gss" in the gallery shortcode outputted by the WordPress media manager. Use "Text" mode in the visual editor to change the shortcode. For example, the default WordPress gallery shortcode:
[gallery columns="3" ids="1,2,3"]becomes:
[gss ids="1,2,3"]See here to view an example slideshow.
To make changes to your slideshow change the shortcode back to "gallery" (in "Text" mode) and make edits using the visual editor / media manager.
The plugin supports four optional shortcode attr
gallery
slideshow
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Usage of Gallery Slideshow over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 274 to 158 — down 116 (-42.3%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 158 | -3 |
| June 2024 | 161 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 163 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 163 | -3 |
| March 2024 | 166 | -21 |
| February 2024 | 187 | -7 |
| January 2024 | 194 | -31 |
| December 2023 | 225 | -18 |
| November 2023 | 243 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 242 | -10 |
| September 2023 | 252 | -14 |
| August 2023 | 266 | -1 |
| July 2023 | 267 | -7 |
| June 2023 | 274 | — |
Themes used with Gallery Slideshow
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Twentytwelve |
| 2 | Genesis |
| 3 | Twentyfourteen |
| 4 | Divi |
| 5 | Graphene |
| 6 | Canvas |
| 7 | Twentyeleven |
| 8 | Trestle-master |
| 9 | Tempera |
| 10 | Glamour |
| 11 | Brooklyn |
| 12 | Esplanade |
| 13 | Total |
| 14 | Tnt |
| 15 | Thematic |
| 16 | Whitelight |
| 17 | Twentythirteen |
| 18 | Jupiter |
| 19 | Cherryframework |
| 20 | Lineza |
Sites running Gallery Slideshow
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